This ancient Greek champion won no fewer than 1600 crowns in sports as varied as the pancratium (Wrestling), pugilism (boxing) and running. He was an all round sportsman and without a doubt the greatest Olympic champion of all times. A legend relates that in his native Thassos he carried a bronze statue from the agora (town square) to his home on his shoulders.The story is all the more astonishing in that his father who was indignant that he should take such liberties made him carry it back to its stele.